New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1928, Page 13

"FOR AMERICAN BOY Scout Execative Makes Appeal Tor-Interest in Growing Lads “The modern boy should use Lind- bergh as his perfect ideal of Ameri- can manhood,” declared Oscaf A. Ericson, scout executive of New Brit- , at.the weekly meeting of the xchange club last evening. He was introduced by Joseph Hance. address was as follow: “It will be impossible for me to sell you men scouting as a boys' spare time program in the short time at my disposal. I would rather s0 phrase my appeal to you as in- dividuals, that you will leave the meeting with a determination to find out for yourself a little bit about what the scouting program has to offer our boys, and not only scout- ing but what the other boys’ organ- izations have to offer. *“Such organizations are: The Boys’ club, the Junior Achievement, and the Y. M. C. A. The memberships of these units is as follows: Boys' club, 590; Junior Achievement, 200 and 400; Y. M. C. A. Boys’ depart- ment, 300; Boy Scouts with 528 re- gistered scouts and 100 candidates attending meetings. “We men who have chosen boys’ work as a profession, are keenly in- terested in reaching more boys, or to use another phrase, occupying our field. We are reaching less than 2,- 000 boys out of a total of approxi- mately 7,000 between the ages of 12 and 18, Leaders Needed “We can only reach more boys as leaders are developed among our citizens of character. Each organ- ization could double its membership if more men would volunteer for service in whatever line they are best fitted to make coatact with boys' groups. In scouting at present there are 25 troops organized. Each of these troops has a scoutmaster and most of them an assistant scoutmas- ter to help in glving the required high type of leadership. Each troop also has an executive committee known as a troop committee of 3 or more men who take an active inter- cst and are r@sponsible for the in- stitutional backing of the troop. In addition to this group of 75 or more men there are 30 men listed as ex- aminers in merit badge subjects, and 50 men members of the New Britain Council, Boy Scouts of America. These 50 men represent business and professional men of all creeds as scouting as non-sectarian. Members of the council have definite duties to perform as members of committees which are active. However, with such a fine organization, we find that scouting is not sold to our city, and there is much misunderstanding, especially on the part of parents, “Many parents still believe that scouting is military or that it Is sec- tarian. Many of our foreign born parents especially have refused to sign the membership application for =i boy to join the scouts. This is & big disappointment to the boy and in many cases has caused him to be- come a member of a corner gang which offers him a chance of be- longing to something, and also offers an action program which while not cthical, still offers the boy that thrill which he is seeking. “You men are community minded. You are seriously concerned when | you read in the local press, of this or that outbreak of juvenile delin- quency. If you are Dads, you are inore uneasy than others, and you wonder perhaps just what your duty as a citizen is, and how you can help in some specific way. How To Effect Contact “First may I suggest that your ‘chances of helping are small if you do not know something about the boys' work program of the different organizations in our city. I would urge you to visit the Boys' club and while there talk with Mr. Skinner, | the club superintendent, and with Mr. Squires of the Junior Achieve- ment, and find out all you can about the program. Then I would call on the Scout council office to furnish you with a list of Scout troops and where they meet, and if you have time visit a troop or make inquiry at the Scout office so that you will know somcthing about the Scout program with its wonderful appeal to every red. blooded boy. Then I would call on the boys' secretary at the ‘Y’, Mr. Strong, and find out from him as to the cultural and rec- reational opportunitics . which the ‘Y’ offers. “This knowledge I would try to gear in in a helpful way in the life of sgme boy. It may be your news- boy from whom you buy youw daily paper or your bootblack or this or that boy whose spare: time job brings him into contact with you. Make him feel you’re his friend by questioning and a little bit of check-~ up, using a notebook for information gained. You will find that such casu- al inquiry will soon give you a good line on the boy. You will also have created a friendly spirit and the chances are that boy will feel that in you he has a friend. You might ask -him what organization he be# Tongs to, and if he does not belong “You and I were boys of yester- day. It is hard for us to see A CLEAR COMPLEXION If your skin is yellow—complexion pallid—tongue coated—appetite poor —You have a bad taste in your, mouth—a lazy, no-good feeling—you should take Olive Tablets, Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets—a | substituts for calomel—were prepar- | | The nuge cast of the Lions’ Big Frolic in “civies” tinninz up for the first performance of the heroes, whom we looked up to and boys of today. Every major sport, and many minor sports have stars who are affecting the lives of boys of today. When you and I get to know our boy of the odd job bet- ter, we may find that he has hopes of becoming a prize fighter and that he's going to be a major leaguer and a sccond Babe Ruth or a Ty Cobb. These are all fine ambitions and will do the boy good rather than harm unless ‘carried to the ex- treme and that means the age where a boy as a young man should be ful occupation, 1t may be that your friendly counsel will help some lad to realize that he is not cut out to but that his place is in the ranks of our skilful and cheerful workers Who are the backbone of our coun- try. “It may be that you may have to help some lad to get a college educa- tion. I do not mean by that dig- ging into vour own pocket, but rather using your name and tn- fluence through correspondenco with deans and ‘presidents of col- leges, so that such boys who are fitted by intellect and ambition get a chance to earn a scholarship. I was talking with a member of an- other service club in our city only recently along this line, and he told of the large number of boys, 50 or more, whom he had helped in this practical way to secure a college education. What a fine service that man was able to render, but back of that is the history of friendly con- tact with many boys which enabled him to do this. “Now in closing I'll say a final word Baltimore—A gift of $195,000 is to be devoted to search for a cure for the common cold, which with its consequences is regarded by Dr. John J. Abel u8 the greatest cause of impairment of efficiency from youth to middle age. The donor is the chemical foundation and the re- search will be by Dr. Abel, professor at Johns Hopkins, who is noted for the application of medical problems. Four of every ten men and seven of | every ten women are disabled by | colds each year. | | Fwi New York—“For eminent patri- otic service” Evangeline Booth, com- mander of the Salvation army, has | received the Eleanor Van Rensselaer | medal from the Society of Colonial | Dames. At the presentation she was | described as one of the most worthy | women of all time in scrving the downtrodden and the poor. Frankfort - On - Maln — German | scientists hope to make sugar out of | air. Experiments in a syndicate's laboratories are described as pro- gressing satisfactorily, | ady Hay-Drum- | mond-Hay, British feminist, is )lex'u‘ to study a puzzle. She wishes to | learn why American women domin. | ate. “Thin women have never made | history,” she remarked, “and yet I | have heard all your American wom- en are so slender.” Angora—The salaam is supposed | to be taboo, and Turks are supposed to shake hands now, yet whenever man, woman or child is presented President Kemal's hand is kissed. | | New York — It costs Father Knickerbocker as much to govern as it does Mussolini. New York city last | year paid out $1,080,135,266, or d by Dr. Edwards after 20 years | o study. ! Olive Tablets are a purely vege- | table compound mixed with olive ofl Know them by their ofive color. To have a clear, pink skin, bright €¥es, no pimples, a fecling of buoy- | Angcles. “The climate here” he like childhood days you must,says, “is warmer than in California.” | at the cause. I —— | Dr. Edw Olive Tablets act on| New York-—The ambition of Emil the Jiver an’ bowels like calomel— | Ludwig, German historian, who fa | vet have no dangerous after effects. | visiting, is to talk ith the oldest | They start the bile and overcome and youngest of American heroes— | constination. Take nightly and note | Edison and Lindbergh. the nlea g results. Millions of boxes old yearly. 15c, 30c, 60c. All| Cleveland—A gift of Druggists, A (to Miami. The police here lot him stay. He has got for the study of about what Italy did. Miami—The police in Los Angeles | railroaded Al Capone east. He came | even with Los the master of some definite and use- | become a star in any major sport, | FLASHES OF LIFE: $195000 GIVEN TO SEEK CURE FOR COMMON COLDS — the Capitol Theater through the eyes ofs youth. Ourlabout scouting. It is less than 18| years old and with more than 700,- revered, are not the heroes to the 000 POYS and leaders enrolled it has| |a program which appeals to boys and trains them to become better citizens. During the past year we gained 92 per cent in enrollment over the previous year. This growth was due to the fact that men were |willing to assume definite obliga- {tions in the way of service, | |acter and manhood so that when we search for a simile to describe him jWe may truthfully and naturally| |say “He is like Lindy.” You and I will lovingly support and do our share in service to organizations that will turn out the “Lindy” type |of American manhood. To that end I bespeak 'your help, not only for | scouting, but for every local agency which has a definite character pro- | gram.* Members of the Exchange club are around the state for good camping sites. The Scouts have a great deal of trouble in finding suitable places to camp during the summer. Places where the water is clear and the conditions for camping ideal are wanted by the scout committee.” —_— PSYCHIC MUSEUM DAMAGED London, Jan. 11 (M—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's psychic museurg in Victoria street, was among the buildings invaded by the waters of the Thames Saturday. The museum was flooded to the depth of four feet with considerable damage to exhibits jsome of which are unique and date to the early days of spiritualism, Linoleum fs made by treating cork with linseed ofl. The scum Which forms on open paint cans is of similar nature, been m: M. Hall of Oberlin, who acquired $45,000,000 by a process of refming aluminum which he devised in his father’s woodshed. An institution in Peking will be endowed under the | direction of Harvard university and | the University of Peking. New York—A golden voico which Il render a special selection for an invalid will be heard by millions free. On John McCormack's radio pro- | Bram January 20 will he “Old Pal of | Mine.” Informed that Mrs. Helen | Cunningham, ederly shut-in, wished it, John satd: “I wil sing for her alone.” Paterson, N. J.—Nathan Barnert, former mayor, believed that no man should have more than $1,000,000. Whenever his fortune exceeded that requested to watch out on their trips | ade by the estate of Charles | next Monday Night. YALE STUDENTS TO BE TRIED JAN. 21 (Ordinance New Haven, | Yale students arrested last jhand bills of an advertising nature. to do with a labor disagreement. Troup for the students, each erence to the students' cases only a few of the defendants lockup, 7 Divinity Students, The students, seven of whom Were members of the divinity school, ing out pamphlets to the general public concerning conditions in the neckwear industry. The pamphlets were headed “Is this fair play?” Yale students have been aiding in an effort to unionize necktie makers, but the pamphlets gave both sides ofthe matter, without dircctly urg- ing unionization. A city ordinance forbids distribution of hand bills. Two New York manufacturing firms, Stern and Merritt, and Berk- man and Adler, moved their plants to New Haven last September when they found the terms of the union workers contract drawn on Septem- ber 1, disagreeable to them. Since the two firms moved to this city, the union has been desirous of form- | Ing a branch here and enlisted the | aid of the Liberal club of Yale to |that end. Members of the Liberal | club took up the case of the weies |and have from time to time arrang- ed meetings at which the neckwear workers here were addreased by | 1abor 1eaders, The distribution of the pamplets last night followed a survey of tho neckwear situation made by three |students, George Brooks, Frederick C. Hyde and J. B. Whitelaw, Claims Approval. The pamph gave their purpose | “to give one unacquainted with the seckwear situation in New Haven a rief summary of the case,” were sald by the students to have heen sumbitted to Dean Clarence R. Men- Rccused of Violating Handbill Conn,, Jan. 11.— Time being needed to prepare thelr cases both proseeutor and defense | attorney todaysecured postponement in city court of the hearing for 19 night charged with violating a city ordi-| nance prohibiting distribution of' The subject matter of the bills had Court set January 21 as the time |for a hearing and Assistant City At< torney Nelson R. Durant and Philip ex- pressed belief that they would be ready at that time. No further ref- was made to Judge Stanley Dunn and ap- peared to be ambéng the spec!atogl 28 all arrested were bailed out last night and did not have to stay in the were arrested last night while pass- | he gave the surplus to charity. His . Wil leaves his ~$700,000 estate to | (¢l Of Yale college, who approved | charity and poor relatives, of them. The students also claimed | to have been advised by Mrs. Leon | N, “Society Circus” to be given at have been universally condemned, but the attempt to re-establish them out of which the present conflict arises, necessitates a brief summary of the well known criticisms.” The pamphlet then goes on to say that home work deprives workers of “bargaining power,” causes families to force even the youngest child to work, is done under conditions not sanitary, and may affect the con- sumer through the transportation ©of germs in the work. Setting fortn the case by the manufacturers, the pamphlet says “the factory condition at Stern and Merritt are excellent, and only a high class of workers is employed, It the manufacturers choose to leave New York what business s it of the union? Is not a man free to carry on his own industry where he wishes, and how he wishes?" Bonds Are Furnished, Bonds were furnished for the 19 by David MoCoy, chairman of the democratic town committee who s a friend of Philip Troop, ex-post- | master, who will represent the American Civil Liberties Union in defense of the students, Chief of Police Phillip T. Smith declared last night that the police were not {nterested in the case represented by the students and that they made arrests in the line of duty. The ordinance under which the men were taken into custody has been on the city books for many years, the chief said, and is always enforc- ed. The offense calls for a maximum fine of $100. The men claimed that they resore- ed to pamphlets when all other means of placing their arguments before the public fatled. A plan had been mapped out for completely “covering” the city with the pam- phlets and 34 zones had been laid out in each of which, from 300 to, 400 pamphlets were to have been distributed. The specitic charge made againat the men’is a violation of city ordi~ nance 858, which reads as follows: “No person shall distribute, throw or drop or cause to be distributed or dropped in the streets or public squares of said city, and posters, handbills, advertising cards or other substance used for the purpose of advertising.” — LINER REACHES SHANGHAT Shanghal, China, Jan. 11PM—The steamship President Monroe, which ran aground in the Inland sea of Japan Sunday, has arrived here. Ex- perts who éxamined the hull said to- day that the vessel was not damaged |and will sail as scheduled. The ship | will not be put in the dry dock until it reaches New York. | | HARDY A BIT STRONGER Dorchester, Eng., Jan. 11 (P— Thomas Hardy, celebrated English |novelist, who has been seriously ill { &t his home here, was stated to be a |little bjt stronger today. KEEP CHILDREN Captain Bram, Freed From of Mary Roberts Rinehard, Believed to Have Gone to Watery Grave 30 Portland, Me.,, Jan. 11 P—A Cape Hatteras gale seemed today to have swallowed up Captain Thomas M. Bram, who 30 years ago was scn- tenced to hang for a triple murder. ‘With him apparently had vanish- ed his four masted achooner, the Alvena, a ship with a history al- most as curious as her skipper's. The lumber laden craft bound from Jacksonville, Fla., to this port, was last spoken on Sunday when in distress. Since then coast guard cutters have failed to find trace of it. | Today old timers were recalling the man who back in 1896 was con- victed at Boston of the murders of Captain Nash of the barkentine | Herbert Fuller, Nash's wite, and his second mate, Retribution of the Sea They were cextain he and the master of the Alvena were one and they spoke in hushed voices of what they saw as the retribution of the sea for one of the most atroclous murders in memory. Little hope they held that schoon- er or skipper would ever reach this port. It was in 1896 that the Herberti Fuller was bound from Halifax for | South America and Bram was a | member of her crew. One morning horrified sallors discovered the axe battered bodies of the two ship's ofticers and that of Mrs. Nash. Charles Brown, the man at the wheel, was accused by Bram and promptly put in irons. Not long aft- erward Bram was detected in the act of removing the missing axe from beneath a deck boat and took Brown's place in the ship’s hold. The ship was turned about and with flag at half staff and the bodies of the three victims being towed in a small boat she put back to port. Bram was taken under guard to Boston where in the same year a federal jury convicted him and he was sentenced to be hanged. At a second trial, however, he escaped ‘with & sentence of life imprisonment at Atlanta. Finally Is Released Years later Mary Roberts Rine- hart wove into a novel the story of | the murder and, having become in- terested in the former saflor, she visited him and through her efforts | President Taft was persuaded to grant a parole which was later made a pardon by President Wilson. The freed slayer opened a bar at Atlanta for a time and rumor had it that he accumulated a small for- tune but the lure of the sea was strong and he became interesicd in the purchase of schooners. The Alvena was one of these. 8he and her sister ship, the Irene, ‘were known in & thousand ports of call on both sides of the Pacific. But steam, electricity and oil doomed them inevitably to the graveyard of ships and for years they rotted in the mud of & west coast harbor. In 1925, however, both were rais- | ed and refitted and in'December of that year they stood out from Aber- deen, Wash,, in a handicap race for Miami, Fla., and the building boom. Each carried a cargo of lumber. They should have made Miami in 30 days. What happened is history. Eighty-one days after leaving port, the Alvena limped into Balboa, bat- tered by a tussle with the elements that lasted to the Bouth Seas and back. The aged craft had been tossed by storms, becalmed by dol- In Loss of Schooner and Captain Is Seen Retribution of the Sea of Which He Was Convicted. Atlanta Through Influence th Years After Crime tered and her crew faint from lack of water and food. Weeks later the Alvena made Mi- ami. The Irene never got beyond San Pedro, Calif, although it had been out from Aberdeen five months. She was towed into the California harbor and is there today, slowly sinking into the bottom ooze. Some time afterward Captain Bram bought the Alvena and since then has used it in a coastwise lum- ber business. It was the first ship which he is known to have commanded in per- son although for years he has borne the courtesy title of captain. Reporter Is Freed on Charge of Letter Theft Concord, N. H., Jan. 11 (UP)— Fred H. Thompson, Boston Post re- porter was found not guilty here late yesterday on a charge of procuring the larceny of a copy of a letter Written by Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for publication in the Atlantic Monthly. The verdict was returned after the Jjury had deliberated four hours and 20 minutes. On another indictment | charging the reporter with the lar- ceny of a copy of the letter, Judge Oscar L. Young directed a verdict | of not guilty. In the letter which formed the | basis of the case, Smith discussed the position of any Catholic who might be elected president. ch: col leathers and patterns, Sale Prices .. “oe MEN’S BLACK and TAN OX Regular price $11.50. On Sale at $7.95. drums and pelted alternately hy rain and snow. Her sails were tat- - WANT THE FINEST Low-PRICED S1x OrALL? His attorneys then asked for a esm~ tinuance to prepare a defense. ment of furniture made by Bass te Mt. 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W still | New Haven — Charles Yarring- fon, Pittsburgh, is stashed by West | Haven man. Nl ! Har(ford — J. Henry Roraback | finds no overwhelming sentiment for | G. 0. P. presidential candidates, on | trip west. | Hartford — State employment bureau placed 27 men and wo- men in December, 1927, terbury — Vincent Hurbau, 21, dishwasher at Stoffe Inn where Michael Andriaccio was killed No- vember 21, is stabbed. Stamford — Howard Baines, 8, is seriously injured when struck by taxi. $2,500,000 | Oriental art has |elect office! Hartford — Connecticut Assocla- | “case for the union” declares, “For Tulin who was, ocfore her marriage to Professor Tulin, Miss Justine Wise, an active worker in the Passa- ic strikes and the daughter of Rabbl Stephen §. Wise, List of Accused, Thos> arrested were: Frederick C. Hyde, '29, Plainfield, N. J. and Boston; Walter F. Myers, graduate divinity, York, Penn.; Hen. ry C. Lynch, 31, Greenwich; William F. Saye, senior divinity, Paris, Mo. Virgil E. Lowden middle divinity, Bluefield, W. Va.; John R. Toop, '29, Philadelphia, Penn.; Guy Miller, Jr., '29, Stroudsburg, Penn.; Edward M, Fleming, ‘30, New York City; Howard H. Williams, *30, New York City; Michael J. Vicari, 28, Anson- ia; John D. Pettus, ’'30, Peking, China; Henry C. Sprikle, Jr., gradu- ate divinity, Salisbury, N. C.: Louts S. Pratt, senlor divinity, Detroit, Mich.; John Tester Lewin, *29, New York city; Roy V. Damron, junior divini Huntington, W. Va. Saut Miller, junior divinity, Loveland, Colo.; William A. Davis, 30, West Barrington, R. I. Condemns Conditions, The pamphlet distributed by the students in the portion entitled the long years the neckwear industry was one of those ‘most degraded of all industries’: an industry charae- tion of Dairy and Milk Inspectors, TS, terized by home work and sweat shop conditions. These conditions ‘28, New Haven; James T. Patter- | {son, *30, Milford; William B. 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